Miriam Davidson is an accomplished voice teacher, children’s educator, conductor, performer and adjudicator in Vancouver, BC. She teaches singing at her music studio, located at East 60th Ave. and Knight Street in Vancouver. She offers both in person lessons and online. She also teaches singing and conducts the women’s choir, the Real Treble Makers at Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, Music & Movement at Renfrew Community Centre and group classes for children and adults at the Shadbolt Centre and at Edmonds Community Centre in Burnaby.
Blog Posts
Only Connect
If you are a literary sort or if you took a post secondary English literature course or two, you will know that the title of this blog post is a direct theft from the epigraph of E.M. Forster’s novel, Howard’s…
Long Beach, The Grand Canyon and the Interconnectedness of Things
It is now the lazy, hazy, dog days of summer as I write this after returning from a family vacation. During July and August, my teaching schedule tapers off. My husband is a school teacher and now that we have…
Tenth Anniversary of Second Take or Why I Have Not Put Out Another Album In Ten Years
It has been ten years since I released my second album Second Take; I have not put out another album since then nor do I have any foreseeable plans to do so. Why? After all, I consider myself to be a…
Laudate Turns Twenty
This weekend (Sat., March 7th), the chamber choir in which I sing, Laudate Singers will perform their twentieth anniversary concert. The choir first started in September 1995, thus making this chamber choir in North Vancouver twenty years old this year. Lars Kaario,…
Christmas Time is Here
I love Christmas. Yes, it’s very hectic, especially if you’re a classically trained singer. This is the one time of the year when female singers can get a decent amount of work. I manage and sing in the Caminando Carolers…
The year begins
It has been a year since the last time I wrote a blog entry. Maybe the explanation for this lack of activity can be found in the previous blog entry appropriately titled “In Praise of Sloth”. A better explanation is…
In Praise of Sloth
I confess that I am generally a lazy person; probably not a good statement to put on a website that’s for professional use. Now, that’s not to write that I don’t take vocal technique and artistry or performance seriously –…
June
I love June. I love the fact that it begins with the birthday of my beautiful little boy, Ben. He’s now three years old and he continues to amaze me every day with his intelligence and his remarkable sense of…
In Springtime
May is upon us with absolutely beautiful weather. We are enjoying summer-like temperatures after at least three years of very wet springs. The next seven days are going to be very busy with choral gigs a plenty. As I write…
Understanding Beauty
March began with two Laudate concerts called Mass Enlightenment. We performed Missa Assumpta Es de Maria by Palestrina, a compiled mass consisting of movements from a few different masses and Mass for Double Choir by Frank Martin. The first performance…